This Week in F-Droid, Week 25

F-Droid is a repository of verified free and open source Android apps, a client to access it, as well as a whole “app store kit”, providing all the tools needed to set up and run an app store. It is a community-run free software project developed by a wide range of contributors. This is their story this past week.

F-Droid core

Torsten has been further involved in fixing reproducible builds for Android. He opened an issue with Google about the non reproducible ressources.arsc file. The issue apparently now got assigned to somebody and Google bumped the priority and added it to some internal hotlists. There is also a thread about this on the reproducible builds mailing list.

Community News

Long time contributor of liberated app forks thermatk has been hard at work to provide a source-built version of the Chromium browser. The project is aptly called Unobtanium. It’s been quite a ride but apparently the project is finished apart from a few final touches it’s all done! This is still pending inclusion into F-Droid but apart from Chromium this will allow having a webview component built and updated by F-Droid! Contributors to this project welcome!

In the next TWIF

As usual, please report interesting updates. There are way too many app updates to keep track of them all, so we need your help to highlight the most interesting changes. And of course, we love to hear about all things involving F-Droid in some way.